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Black GOPers Team Up in CT

Regina Roundtree has founded a new organization called Connecticut Black Republicans and Conservatism, to help the party broaden its base and build a better urban agenda, the Associated Press reports. The GOP has neglected urban and minority voters, who, according to the group's website, "can reduce the level of poverty among its residents with the introduction of conservative values."

(Photo: Courtesy of the Connecticut Black Republicans and Conservatives)